Common Name: CYPRESS FAMILY Habit: Shrub, tree, generally evergreen; monoecious or dioecious. Leaf: simple, cauline, alternate or opposite (either +- 4-ranked) or whorled in 3s (6-ranked), linear or scale-, awl- or needle-like (sometimes linear and awl-like on 1 pl, or on juvenile or injured plants), generally decurrent, covering young stems. Pollen Cone: axillary or terminal. Seed Cone: +- fleshy to generally woody, generally hard at maturity; scales opposite or whorled, peltate or not. Seed: 1--many per scale, angled or lateral winged, generally wind-dispersed. Chromosomes: n=11. Genera In Family: 30 genera, 130+ species: +- worldwide, especially North America, Eurasia. Note: Incl (paraphyletic) Taxodiaceae. Taxa of (polyphyletic) Cupressus in TJM (1993) now in Callitropsis, Chamaecyparis, Hesperocyparis. eFlora Treatment Author: Jim A. Bartel, except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: JUNIPER Habit: Shrub, tree; generally dioecious. Stem: bark thin, peeling in strips; young shoots 4-angled to cylindric. Leaf: opposite (4-ranked) or whorled in 3s (6-ranked), scale-like to less often awl- or needle-like. Pollen Cone: generally terminal; pollen sacs 2--6 per scale. Seed Cone: generally terminal, 5--18 mm, +- spheric, +- fleshy, berry-like, glaucous or not, dry or resinous, generally maturing 2nd year, surrounded at base by minute scale-like bracts; scales 3--8, fused, opposite or whorled in 3s. Seed: 1--3 per cone, +- flat, unwinged, often not angled, generally animal-dispersed over 2 years; cotyledons 2--6. Etymology: (Latin: juniper) eFlora Treatment Author: Robert P. Adams & Jim A. Bartel Reference: Adams & Nguyen 2007 Phytologia 89:43--57; Adams et al. 2006 Phytologia 88:299--309 Unabridged Reference: Adams 2004 Junipers of the World: The genus Juniperus. Trafford Publ., Vancouver
Juniperus californica Carrière
NATIVE Habit: Shrub, tree 1--4(10) m; generally dioecious. Stem: trunks several at base; bark gray, thin, outer layers persistent. Leaf: generally whorled in 3s, 6-ranked; scale-like, closely appressed; gland obvious. Pollen Cone: 2--3 mm, oblong. Seed Cone: 7--12 mm, spheric to ovoid, +- blue maturing red-brown, dry. Seed: 5--7 mm, pointed, angled, brown. Ecology: Dry slopes, flats, pinyon/juniper woodland; Elevation: 50--1500 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoRI, SNF, ScV (Sutter Buttes), SnFrB, SCoR, TR, PR, D; Distribution Outside California: southern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, Baja California (Cedros, Guadalupe islands). Jepson eFlora Author: Robert P. Adams & Jim A. Bartel Reference: Adams & Nguyen 2007 Phytologia 89:43--57; Adams et al. 2006 Phytologia 88:299--309 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Juniperus Next taxon: Juniperus communis
Botanical illustration including Juniperus californica
Citation for this treatment: Robert P. Adams & Jim A. Bartel 2012, Juniperus californica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=29749, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Juniperus californica:
NCoRI, SNF, ScV (Sutter Buttes), SnFrB, SCoR, TR, PR, D
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